Skansen
Open air museum · Djurgården ·
Open-air museum & zoo with historic Swedish buildings & Nordic animals
Open-air museum & zoo with historic Swedish buildings & Nordic animals
"Skansen’s open-air museum offers a very traditional holiday experience—historic homes and farmsteads decorated for the season—where I tucked into smoked turkey and sugared almonds, joined traditional dances around the festive tree at Bollnäs Square, made Christmas decorations in workshops, and caught weekend concerts in Seglora church (including the candlelit Lucia procession on December 13)." - Caitlin Morton
"At the world’s oldest open-air museum in Stockholm, a theatrical vodka-based glögg recipe is served: dried figs and ginger are macerated in vodka with traditional spices for hours, the mixture is heated and briefly set aflame while a large sugar cube is melted into it to create a lightly golden, caramel-scented liquid, then snuffed and served immediately in small glass cups garnished with raisins, blanched almonds and a tiny spoon." - Per Styregård
"A brief description of Skansen—a 75-acre open-air museum with historic buildings and a zoo—doesn’t convey just how much fun it is. You can easily spend a happy half-day here, looking at wolves, reindeer, moose, seals, and other Nordic creatures, then popping into old buildings that have been brought here from all over Scandinavia and reassembled. In some you can talk to people in costume who are playing the roles of the original inhabitants. Elsewhere you can watch glassblowers at work and visit old-fashioned stores. Open since 1891, it remains one of Sweden ’s top tourist draws."
"A brief description of Skansen—a 75-acre open-air museum with historic buildings and a zoo—doesn’t convey just how much fun it is. You can easily spend a happy half-day here, looking at wolves, reindeer, moose, seals, and other Nordic creatures, then popping into old buildings that have been brought here from all over Scandinavia and reassembled. In some you can talk to people in costume who are playing the roles of the original inhabitants. Elsewhere you can watch glassblowers at work and visit old-fashioned stores. Open since 1891, it remains one of Sweden ’s top tourist draws."
"A brief description of Skansen—a 75-acre open-air museum with historic buildings and a zoo—doesn’t convey just how much fun it is. You can easily spend a happy half-day here, looking at wolves, reindeer, moose, seals, and other Nordic creatures, then popping into old buildings that have been brought here from all over Scandinavia and reassembled. In some you can talk to people in costume who are playing the roles of the original inhabitants. Elsewhere you can watch glassblowers at work and visit old-fashioned stores. Open since 1891, it remains one of Sweden ’s top tourist draws."